The Brown news is big. That will cause a ripple in those sports.
I am not sure how this can be the case with certain sports , but for Crew/Rowing we have been told that D1 coaches may be visiting the top cites for Class of 2021 recruits and holding meetings at the home or a coffee shop with potential recruits. They would only do this if no Fall season and if they are not allowed to extend athletes official visits due to campus visit policies restricting access.
Of course, a big part of an official is understanding the team dynamics, so kids will need to dig deep into social media for the team, search out members of the team to speak with and take a bit of a chance when committing sight unseen. Of course, school fit is key too - but presume you wouldn’t accept an “official” if school was not in your top 5.
Time will tell - but we do know it doesn’t sound like business as usual.
College baseball is, IMO, about to become a whole other animal. Covid provided MLB the opportunity to do what some teams wanted anyway, which is to constrict the minor league system. This will mean a smaller draft which in turn means even more players than before interested in attending college. As mentioned upthread, with so few scholarships for a 35-man roster, the ability to pay (whether from the family or through merit money) already played a big role in a coaches desire to recruit an athlete. It will become exponentially even more important.
As to recruiting right now, we have found reaching out to coaches to be fruitful. They have nothing else to do and are just happy to talk to qualified athletes.
That’s because the school is closing in June 2021. It is mainly staying open for seniors to finish but closing its athletic department now. If students want to play, they have to transfer.
There was an article in our paper about the Furman athletes. They were shocked at the dropping of lacrosse and baseball. Furman is honoring their athletic scholarships but these kids want to play. The article featured a local student who was to be captain of the lacrosse team this year. He’s already entered the transfer portal. Because the season was cancelled this year, he’ll have 2 years of eligibility left.
The D1 coaches want to know if you are applying for FA because it changes the scholarship amount or eligibility. Basically a D1 (or D2) athlete can’t get both an athletic scholarship and need based FA from the school (or the FA counts against the coach’s budget). If it makes more sense to get FA, the coach will usually prefer you do that and then he can save his athletic money for another student. The coach doesn’t want to offer you a partial scholarship if you can’t otherwise afford the school. In fact most coaches want you to get as much merit aid as you can because then you can get less in athletic money.
D3 coaches want to know if you can even afford the school. If you are relying on FA to attend, you might not be able to so the coach wants to move on (if your expectations of full FA are unrealistic).
When the NCAA granted spring athletes another season, it wasn’t just a simple matter for the senior to say they were coming back. Bill Tierney from DU’s top men’s lacrosse team said there was a lot more that went into it. First he had to determine which players were on athletic money and which on academic/need based money. Academic money is often for 4 years only. Athletic money has already been promised to incoming freshmen. Players are waiting to move up to the starting positions (goalie waiting 2 years? captains selected?)
My daughter could not have played a 5th year. Her academic money was used up and that was more than half her COA.
The Brown news really shocked me, but I dug in and learned they had 38 sports team which is a ton and it said the budget was not going down, it would stay the same but would be spent on less sports, it still sucks for those 150 kids who lost their sport. I am on a zoom call tomorrow to hear about Uconn’s non revenue sports and the rumors going around some are on the chopping block.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/sports/coronavirus-high-school-athletes-recruiting.html
Interesting article on the effect of COVID19 on recruiting for the class of 2021.
“The list of employees furloughed from college athletic departments is too long to compile. “
Hi,
Is there a list of colleges for furloughed coaches?
Thank you.
Here are the schools that I know have canceled their fall seasons so far:
Bowdoin
Morehouse College
UMass-Boston
UM-Dearborn
Williams
- Tufts
I will be shocked if any of the schools in the NESCAC have sports this fall considering Williams, Bowdoin, and Tufts have already cancelled their fall seasons.
Wow! Hadn’t heard that!
The Ivy League is discussing having football season as a conference in the spring, begin in April-end middle of May. If they do, I suspect NESCAC may follow.
@eb23282 I haven’t been able to confirm the Tufts cancellation. Do you have a link?
@GKUnion It was second hand from an alumni. I tried looking but didn’t see a decision was made on varsity sports yet.
BTW, +TCNJ. They announced last week no fall varsity contact sports.
Apparently RPI cancelled their fall sports season.
Trinity, Amherst and Swarthmore cancelled fall sports.
Ivy League will make an announcement on fall sports on July 8.
One coach told my son he put in far fewer prereads this summer than he usually does because of all the upheaval.
Men’s Swimming and Diving gone at University of Connecticut. They’ll do one more season.
@eb23282 I couldn’t find Trinity info anywhere. What sources are you using? It’s tough to track all this info down. I’ve been researching schools mentioned in the Covid school thread.